For the uninitiated, the roguelike genre is all about exploring procedurally generated dungeons and managing your resources as you struggle to the bottom. PMD strategy was basically "whack the peeps in your way, maybe swapping places with your partner if you have a type disadvantage." The typical roguelike strategy will be incredibly convoluted and involve uses of equipment and skills that may not occur to the player for months of play. Not for the faint of heart. Though take that with salt, because I somehow get entertainment out of repeated head-hand-to.
You may wonder what this has to do with troubleshooting. Well, it all started today, when I found out there was a new version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup available. So I downloaded it, opened it up, and watched as it fired up Terminal and promptly did absolutely nothing. Nothing it showed me, anyway. Thinking it had already crashed somehow, I quit and started it up again. Without delay, it gave me the menu screen. Dismissing the earlier trouble, I went on with my game, noting that my game saved on the previous version didn't carry over. No matter, that guy wouldn't have access to the new features anyway. And it wasn't as if he would last another five minutes.
That... that last bit probably wasn't a bug or anything, by the way.
Nothing seemed wrong for a time. My new housecat's doom came promptly and as scheduled, but with a little surprise that trees and deep water were now identical, and looked like absolutely nothing. I had to question their judgement on that one. It couldn't have been a bug; they had called it a stable version, hadn't they? They would have noticed something like that. Later, I came across a very wiggly hallway. And it turned out it was actually directly north-south. Kinda neat, but caused more judgement questioning.
Somehow, I still thought nothing of it, and decided I'd make my character a god in debug mode. That was when I knew something was wrong. Every floor of the dungeon had an area where it was skewed and caused Rashy to stumble across like a drunken man. More deep water, and I had to take the game's word for it. I eventually tired of trampling golden dragons and, with some effort, killed him off. The game quit, as it does, and when I went to open it again, my computer was all "Hey, don't mess with that, bub. I think it's broken."
Uh-oh.
Version 0.7 was broken somehow too. I had no clue what I had done. But clearly it was just my copy broken and all I had to do was download it again?
Nope.
It was probably panic time now. Never play Dungeon Crawl again for reasons that were beyond my grasp?? But then it hit me. If the program wasn't broken, it was some of its files. All I had to do is find them, figure out which one, and delete it.
Finding them was not much of a problem, though I learned a few worrying things about my lack of computer knowledge. I didn't know where to look, but I did know a few silly names that wouldn't be found anywhere else on my hard drive. It was as simple as a search for BP. The "find out which one" bit stumped me. I just deleted them all, a little hesitantly. And 0.7 worked again! I played a game, which consisted of giving a human fighter a funny name and promptly climbing the stairs back out of the dungeon. Sure enough, the high scores were gone. Not that I missed them; they were probably embarrassingly low. I fired up 0.8 again. And got the same "don't mess with this, guy" message.
It was time for advanced made-up techniques! I downloaded it again and deleted the files.
...And the hallways have returned to their wiggly state.
Anyone else got any ideas? 'Cause I'm absolutely stuck.
